What Eisenhower Republicans Had In Common With Occupy Wall Street

As David Leonhardt has recounted kudos to Alex MacGillis for bringing it up this week the senior Romney constantly turned down bonuses and pay raises. Once, he explained that no executive needed to make more than $225,000 a year equivalent to about $1.4 million today so he was refusing $100,000 bonus. Romney was a respectable Republican candidate for President in 1968, meaning that he was no enemy of free enterprise.